Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chinese"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
{Chinese paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}.
{Chinese wax}, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from
China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of
the family {Coccid[ae]} especially {Coccus Sinensis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.
1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race
with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
Shakespeare and Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Chinese
adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
"Chinese food" [syn: {Chinese}]
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic
on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the
Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: {Taiwanese}, {Chinese},
{Formosan}]
n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China (regarded
as dialects of a single language (even though they are
mutually unintelligible) because they share an
ideographic writing system) [syn: {Chinese}]
2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
China [syn: {Chinese}]
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